Dinner Party for the Famous and You

[lesbiaphrodite]

If you could ask three famous people (alive or dead) to a dinner party hosted by you, which three would you choose and why?

For me, it would be:

1. Lord Shiva (because, I believe, he could help me find the path to enlightenment)

2. Naomi Watts (because, I believe, she could answer many of my lingering questions about how she managed to do what she did in Mulholland Dr.)

3. Monica Bellucci (because, I believe, she could help me better understand the true meaning of beauty)

 

[rgraham666]

Socrates. I'd love to pick his brain.

Jefferson. You don't often meet a Renaissance man.

Sun Tzu. To hear what he has to say about the conflicts in our world.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Tim Gunn, he has a sense of sophistication I admire and as a mentor he is brilliant.

Neil Gaiman, he has an imagination I want to see up close.

Richard Branson, I admire his maverick attitude.

Ok so maybe not a dinner party but over drinks in a gentleman's club in high back leather chairs.

 

[Liar]

Hmm...

Aspasia, the original old school feminist, and the one who taught Socrates his wit. Because that kind of stuff impress me.

Giambattista Vico, because he understood the nature of knowledge when noone else did. Because I'd like to show him my thesis and see what he thinks.

Oscar Wilde, because he was totally fucking cool.

 

[3113]

If you could ask three famous people (alive or dead) to a dinner party hosted by you, which three would you choose and why?

1) Groucho Marx: Funny guy, tells good stories, and won't let the topics of discussion get too serious.

2) Benjamin Franklin: Kept the whole Court of France entertained, so I think he could manage to keep this small dinner party swinging. Inventive, witty and tells good stories.

Hm. Last one is hard. On the one hand, Richard Feynman would be entertaining and enlightening. He could talk particle physics and entertain us with the bongo drums. But I think I'm going to have to go with....

3) Archimedes: Mathematician, inventor, engineer, astronomer...Might have to draw him a bath and it's likely he'd scribble on my table cloth, but so what? It's always good to have a guest around who can not only explain how things work, but can fix the garbage disposal if need be. Heck, Archie there could probably make me a new and better garbage disposal.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

If you could ask three famous people (alive or dead) to a dinner party hosted by you, which three would you choose and why?

Winston Churchill: because he's Winston Churchill--a flawed, brilliant, erudite, introspective man who shaped modern history.

Mark Twain: a smart, witty, acute observer with an anti-imperialsit mind-set that could be an interesting counter-point to WC

Marcus Aurelius: emperor of Rome, stoic philosopher, author of, Meditations. As such, he would have much to share about many topics.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Frida Kahlo
Vienna Teng
Jeanette Winterson

All, for obvious reasons - My favourite artists, each, Goddess of their own sphere of influence.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Boys

Dorothy Parker - the wit, the charm and the one-liners. Oh, and the sybarite
tendencies.

Mae West - Need I say more?

Madonna - How to make it work for you.

 

[oggbashan]

Ernest Bramah, writer of the Kai Lung stories and an expert on China;
Arthur Quiller-Couch, known as "Q", Professor of English who believed that simple is beautiful;
Thomas Love Peacock, in love with words particularly those he invented himself.

They all have different views about writing and all were known as brilliant conversationalists.

Me? I'd just provide the food and drink and enjoy listening.

Og

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Jesus Christ: God & simultaneously Son of God - he'd be my first choice. I don't know if I'd need anyone else. There's a few things I'd like to ask him.

Guatama Buddha: He probably wouldn't be much of a conversationalist but he'd be a good place to stash our coats.

W.C. Fields: Probably the only man who would talk back to the other two guests.

 

[neonlyte]

C.P. Snow - to help me understand 20C England
Jeanette Winterson - to tell the truth
Fernando Pessoa - which is a cheat, but I'd like to meet the man obsessed by writing and take the risk on which one of his persona's showed up.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Kate Hepburn: adore her

Whoopie Goldberg: love her mind

Hitler: I know people will say...wtf, but sometimes you just need to have them there to talk to and see what they are really like.

What a party that would be.

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

Ernest Hemingway -to learn about his style of writing

Michael Landon (favorite actor RIP!)

Walt Whitman (Fav poet)

 

[Brute_Force]

Pablo Picasso

King David

Mary Magdalene

 

[DeeZire]

Marilyn Monroe and Ashley Judd, with any famous cinematographer filming the ensuing catfight.

 

[Equinoxe]

My answers are always subject to change, but at this very moment I would choose to invite these three [dead] people:

Sarah Churchill, 1st Duchess of Marlborough. She was somewhat notoriously unpleasant, but I find her to be incredibly admirable and I wonder what she would be like in person.

Queen Christina of Sweden. A strange woman who I just find fascinating, she was unconventional, to say the least, and would be interesting to be around.

Sei Shonagon. I think she would be a witty and interesting conversationalist—and she would probably appreciate the company of a Queen and a Duchess.

All three because of their personalities and not necessarily because of what topics we might discuss. Even assuming that more than two of us can understand each other.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I've been thinking about this. (I have no radio in my car, and it's a boring drive, okay?)

Bruce Lee, because he was almost superhuman in his fighting ability and his mental discipline.
Willie Nelson, because he would be so much fun to have over
Ramses III, so Bruce, Willie and I could discover the truth behind all the secrets of ancient Egypt.

It would be a great party.

 

[john-the-author]

Pete Seeger, one of my all-time heroes (and whose autograph adorns one of my banjos).

Mason Williams, another of my heroes, who lives about 2 miles away but I've been too shy to meet.

And probably an old friend of mine named Judy who has the clearest soprano voice I've ever known and plays a pretty good guitar. (Mark Twain would be fun, but I don't know that he'd be any good in a jam session.)

 

[Trombonus]

Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears. Imagine the countless hours of entertainment one could have watching their ridiculous antics. >.<

On a more serious note I'd have the following:

Simon Furman: He's my hero
Jodie Sweetin: Because I've been in love with her since middle school
Joe Alessi Jr.: I've got to make up for that Master class disaster back in '02

ETA: So much for serious.

 

[3113]

Bruce Lee, because he was almost superhuman in his fighting ability and his mental discipline.
Willie Nelson, because he would be so much fun to have over
Ramses III, so Bruce, Willie and I could discover the truth behind all the secrets of ancient Egypt.

Are you planning on having sex with Bruce or Ramses? If Bruce, with or with out his Kato mask? If Ramses, with or without his pharaoh's wig?

 

[cloudy]

King John (the one who signed the magna carta) - he was a touch evil, but what a brilliant political mind!

Boadicea - warrior queen, 'nuff said

Crazy Horse - because he's my hero

 

[ishtat]

Enheduanna, so we could show her what she started.

The Holy Ghost because he missed the Doc's party.

Jack the Ripper, I want to know who he was.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Are you planning on having sex with Bruce or Ramses? If Bruce, with or with out his Kato mask? If Ramses, with or without his pharaoh's wig?

I definitely plan on doing Ramses in the bathroom during cocktails.

 

[champagne1982]

I definitely plan on doing Ramses in the bathroom during cocktails.

ahh. the pharoah and condom of choice.

 

[Guest]

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